Evidence That Female Razorbills Control Extra-Pair Copulations

Behaviour

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 1991, Pages 157-169

  Wagner, Richard H ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON GUILLEMOT; COPULATION; EXTRA-PAIR COPULATION; GUILLEMOT; RAZORBILL; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ALCA TORDA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 0026270823     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853991X00265     Document Type: Article

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